Archive for the ‘Ben Nevis’ tag

* News came late last year that the Vinsetta Garage, a Woodward Avenue landmark, would be closing its doors. Fortunately, it appears the garage will not be razed to make way for another strip mall; rather, it will reopen, likely as a garage-themed restaurant, next spring.

* Art Tidesco over at Gettin’ a lil’ psycho on tyres! recently visited the Bugatti Trust, a museum and archive of Bugatti artifacts and research materials in Gloucestershire, and came back with several photos, including the above of Bugatti’s stillborn streamliner, envisioned to compete for land-speed records.

* In the late 1950s, Gene Winfield and his friend Rick Lefelt built a 1935 Ford pickup to advertise Winfield’s custom shop. Out of sight for decades, it was eventually discovered in a field in Oregon, then restored to its original bronze configuration. Hotrod and Restoration has the story and photos.

* Finally, though we’re a little late with this, it’s still an interesting story. In May, to celebrate the centennial of the famed climb up Ben Nevis in a Ford Model T, a group of volunteers carried a disassembled T to the top and reassembled it for a photo op before disassembling it again and hauling it back down the mountain.